Tuning Your Instrument - Boss BR-80 Owner's Manual

Tuning Your Instrument

The BR-80 provides a Chromatic Tuner
function that makes it easy to tune an
instrument. The built-in tuner supports
guitar or bass guitar.
Here's how to tune your guitar.
The inputs that can be tuned will depend
on the mode.
LIVE REC
Input
GUITAR/
MIC IN
Built-in
microphones
LINE IN
USB
* Playback or recording is not possible
while using the tuner.
Switching to the tuner
1.
Hold down the [RHYTHM] button and
press the [COSM] button .
The TUNER screen will appear.
Tuning guide
Note name
The tuning guide indicates the difference
between the input pitch and the displayed
note name. If the difference between the
input and the correct pitch is within ±50
cents, the tuning guide shows the amount
of difference.
118
MTR eBand
mode mode mode
Reference
pitch
2.
To turn off the tuner, press the [EXIT]
button .
MEMO
If you don't want sound to be output
during tuning, lower the [VOLUME]
knob.
Tuning
1.
Play a single note on the open string
that you're tuning .
The display will show the note name that is
closest to the pitch of the string you played.
* You must cleanly play a single note on
only the string you're tuning.
2.
Tune your instrument so that the
correct note name of the string you're
tuning appears in the display .
Standard tuning
7th 6th
string string string
Guitar
B E
Bass - -
3.
While watching the tuning guide,
tune your instrument so that the
screen shows the desired note name
and both of the triangular symbols .
If the difference is within ±50 cents of the
correct pitch, the tuning guide will show
the difference between your instrument
and the displayed pitch.
If your instrument is flat
5th 4th 3rd 2nd
string string string
A D G B
B E A D
1st
string
E
G